John Ibrahim met Roger Rogerson in Long Bay Jail for one-hour chat

EXCLUSIVE: IT sounds like something from a ­television crime ­series — the King of the Cross John ­Ibrahim meets Australia’s most corrupt cop Roger Rogerson. It happened in real life last week.

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IT’S a scene straight from the fevered imagination of a ­television crime ­series — the King of the Cross John ­Ibrahim meeting Australia’s most corrupt cop Roger Rogerson.

But it really happened last week when Ibrahim made an unlikely visit to Long Bay Prison to chat with Rogerson, who is awaiting an appeal on his life sentence for the murder of student Jamie Gao.

Prison insiders said officers and inmates were “stunned” to see Mr Ibrahim, who at 46 is 30 years Rogerson’s junior, arrive at the Long Bay visitation area where the pair appeared friendly and ­ animated during an hour-long meeting.

John Ibrahim was a teenager when he first met Rogerson.

Former police detective Roger Rogerson had business dealings with Ibrahim.

It’s understood the pair’s friendship goes back to the 1980s, when Rogerson was at the height of his powers and the teenage Ibrahim was just beginning what would ­become his infamous career.

Mr Ibrahim not only confirmed the visit but admitted he and Rogerson share “a mutual trust”, having engaged in a handful of business dealings during Kings Cross’s heyday.

“We had a mutual trust and we met,  I  think, when I was just 16,” he said.

Back in 2010, Rogerson told The Daily Telegraph: “I’ve known John since he was 14.”

He said he rang Ibrahim then to firstly sympathise and hopefully cheer up the promoter after an attempt to kill his brother Fadi and then the subsequent arrests of Fadi and six others over an alleged revenge plot.

John Ibrahim as a student at Merrylands High School.

Detective Sergeant Roger Rogerson at work in 1981.

Such was the buzz surrounding Ibrahim’s appearance at Long Bay, it’s understood he and Rogerson were even approached by at least one prison officer for a photograph.

As with most of Mr Ibrahim’s dealings, the visit, believed to be ­initiated by Rogerson’s wife Anne Mellocco, also had a business agenda.

The former Golden Mile boss confirmed he hopes to persuade Rogerson to sign over the rights to his life story, with an eye to turning it into a book or television series via his burgeoning production company.

Ibrahim, pictured as a teenager, said he had a mutual trust with Rogerson.

The pair discussed signing over the rights to Rogerson’s life story.

“But I want to tell the real story,” Mr Ibrahim said. “But that’s not something that we can really discuss until after his appeal.”

Should Mr Ibrahim snare the rights to the saga it would be the second major retelling of the former cop’s bizarre life.

A sequel to the famous 1995 ABC miniseries Blue Murder — titled Blue Murder: Killer Cop — will focus on Rogerson’s 2016 murder trial and is poised to air on Channel 7 this year, with Richard Roxburgh reviving his turn as the murderous cop.

Rogerson was sentenced to life in September, along with former detective Glen McNamara, for shooting drug supplier Gao.

He is serving out his sentence in Long Bay’s Kevin Waller unit, an aged care wing for elderly inmates.

Along with entertaining his fellow inmates with singalongs conducted on a recently replaced prison keyboard, Rogerson has been advising visiting police.

Ambulance staff and police attend to Fadi Ibrahim after he was shot five times in a car in 2009. Roger Rogerson reached out to John Ibrahim after the incident.

A prison source alleged Rogerson “helpfully” ran through a “checklist” to help police investigating the recent “sandwich press” death of convicted killer Frank Townsend, 71.

“He was saying: ‘Have you checked this, have you covered that off ’,” the source said. “He still thinks he’s a cop.”

Convicted killer John Walsh has been charged with murder and is scheduled to appear in court on February 28.